Involving Independent ERP Consultants is the #6 Recommendation for Digital Transformation in 2023.

Описание: With a failure rate of over 70%, the role of independent ERP consultants is becoming even more important.

Buying business software has always been frightening.

With so many moving pieces involved.

Meeting functional requirements is just one piece of the puzzle.

You need to worry about it. Legal Issues. Enterprise Architecture. Master Data. Processes. And Change Management.

This is only going to get worse with the best-of-breed architecture. More confusion!

And increased overlap among software.

So how can independent ERP consultants help?

Let’s find out.

Recall the recommendations we have covered so far:
💠Reassess Your Current Architecture and Systems
💠Centralized Transformation, Change, and Budget Management
💠Compensation and KPI design
💠Not Asking Your Technology Vendors to Define Your Enterprise Architecture
💠Invest in Pre-selection Phase

How do independent ERP consultants work?
✔️Not tied to a specific solution or a vendor
✔️Help with process re-engineering (before the technology is brought into the fold)
✔️Help identify the critical success factors (that will make or break your implementation)
✔️Play the role of a quarterback (and manage the whole program)
✔️Responsible for managing change
✔️Define enterprise architecture, process boundaries, master data governance, and future state
✔️Help reduce the workload for internal teams by up to 70%

The implications of not having independent consultants involved with the project?
💠Unrealistic expectations for both vendors as well as for the customer
💠Vendors overcommitting their capabilities in order not to lose the deal
💠No documentation for processes, and the digital transformation becomes the biggest tribal knowledge, much bigger than your “employees’ head.”
💠The tight coupling with vendors as they will know more about your business than you
💠Vendors simply dump the data and ask clients to test
💠No master data governance strategy, causing the enterprise workflows to break
💠No clearly defined enterprise architecture among components
💠No process or data engineering. Garbage in, garbage out!

How to fail even with independent ERP consultants?
✔️Hiring them only for ERP selection. No skin in the game during implementation.
✔️Paying them but not listening to them for most critical architectural decisions
✔️Not giving them authority and accountability for the entire project
✔️Not allowing them to do their job
✔️Bypassing them and making decisions on your own

Has not having a vendor-agnostic consultant fired back for you? How bad?

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